Reshaping Vocational Education and Training in Aotearoa New Zealand

Dr Selena Chan is an educational / research capability developer at Ara Institute of Canterbury (formerly Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology - CPIT). She brings into her research, her past experiences as a craft/tradesperson and vocational education educator. Through the last two decades, her work has informed the support of entry into and completion of apprenticeship; development of technology-enhanced learning in VET; the recognition of the dual identities of vocational educators as craftsperson and teacher; and improved understanding of the ways practice-based learning is enacted. Much of this work is presented and discussed in her 2020 book, 'Identity, pedagogy, and technology-enhanced learning: Supporting the processes of becoming a trades person'. Her latest book published in 2021, 'Digitally-enabling 'learning by doing' in vocational education: enhancing 'learning as becoming' processes', summarises the learnings derived from supporting the curriculum design and shift to 'distance learning' wrought by the pandemic Dr Nicholas Huntington has worked at the intersection of research and policy for a range of agencies, organisations, and research units. Before taking up his current role with the Nursing Council of New Zealand, he managed the Building and Construction ITO's policy response to the government's vocational reforms. Prior to that he led the policy and strategic projects portfolios at Ako Aotearoa, the National Centre for Tertiary Teaching Excellence, where he had a particular focus on promoting vocational education research, skills and workplace-led learning, the relationship between education and work, and supporting learner voice in tertiary education. He was a member of the Tertiary Education Commission's Workforce Development Council Design Reference Group. Nicholas has authored and co-authored publications on a wide range of topics, from electoral politics to health workforce development, and his recent doctoral thesis explores how practitioners in New Zealand's skills policy community engage with the concept of evidence-based policy.

Part: 1.- Chapter 1. Introduction: Reshaping for the future: Challenges and innovation.- Chapter 2. Industry Training Organisations: A perspective on history, evolution, and innovation.- Chapter 3. The evolution of NZ Institutes of Technology and Polytechnics.- Chapter 4. The Reform of Vocational Education 1: The context for change.- Chapter 5. The Reform of Vocational Education 2: Looking to the future.- Part: 2.- Chapter 6. Unleashing potential - legitimising Maori talent through Capable Maori.- Chapter 7. The learners' voice: Pacific peoples in industry training.- Chapter 8. Women in trades: Industry Training Organisations' (ITOs) initiatives to increase participation.- Part: 3.- Chapter 9. Vocational Workplace Learning: Who is in the Driver's Seat?.- Chapter 10. Investigating the complexity of language use in trades education in the Aotearoa New Zealand context.- Chapter 11. Secondary / Tertiary High School, changing student experiences through VET.- Part: 4.- Chapter 12. Project-based learning with contributions from inquiry and problem-based learning.- Chapter 13. Deconstructing Learning: The Modernist Classroom.- Chapter 14.Collaboration Across Aotearoa New Zealand ITPs: The Bachelor of Engineering Technology Three-Year Engineering Degree Programme as an Exemplar.- Chapter 15. Developing an engineering degree apprenticeship with a pathway in infrastructure asset management.- Part: 5.- Chapter 16. Distance and online education for VET in Aotearoa NZ.- Chapter 17. A lean model to support the design of learning systems for practice-based learning.- Chapter 18. A networked distributed model for midwifery education.- Part: 6.- Chapter 19. Teacher Education for a VET Teaching Workforce in Aotearoa NZ.- Chapter 20. Into the future for Aotearoa New Zealand Vocational Education and Training.